Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-06
Oberlin has public library of 1877

Oberlin has public library of 1877
volumes.
The first term of court ever held in
Lane county convened at Dighton on
December 2lst.
The Leaven worth savings bank re-
Gently pmmenced operations with a
capital stock of 100000.
Elevator "a" owned by g. P.
Weeks, at Kinsley, barned down re-
Gently. Loss s75, ZOO, insured for
s5OP000. oo
The number of children of school
age in Labette county, Kansas, is
10, ,495. only five counties i'll the state
having a larger number. oso
The bill thae reeently passed she
house extends the free delivery system
toEm poria, Fort Scott, Ottawa. Wei
lington, Winfield and Kansas City.
The Soldiers Home at Leavenworth
now contains LOO ez-volunteer sol
diers, and by the 1st OF April it is
thought it will have 1,600. or the
present number of inmates 100 are
from Kansas. o
The Missouri Pae1fc and Texas Pc
cifc are ahaving quite a row aE Par
ems. the former endeavoring to keep
the latter from crossing its track.
Erouble is anticipated.
Through the eff ,rts on Hon John
A. Anderson a bill has pissed the
house. providing for a school Of cavalry
and light artillery, instruction at Fort
Riley, by vote Of 1873 to SO.
Surveys are in progress for the Kan
sss City & Pacific road between Kan
~as City and Parsons, Kansas, which
is supposed 60 be in the interest Of the
Chicago & Alton.
The Harper Ssntinsg says "Har-
per has no less than five paper rail-
goahs running into her harbor. and
more good looking girls to the block
than any other city in the state"
A Baxter paper reports ihe death
of "Grandna" King, member of the
Ottawa tribe, on the reservati N south
of that place, at the age OF 109 years
She was, i'll good health up TO the day
of her death. o
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
sill gson begin the epnstructioil o.! a
telegraph line from Topeka to Chicago
for the use of Chief Engineer Robin
son This telegrapl line. wild fo:low
the route or the nee Chicago eKten-
siol.
& very disagreeable story report
from Topeks Snat Rev. Henry w.
George, OF the First Presby erian
church, has been compelled to resign
the pastorate Of that chuEch under
char ges OF eheft.
The Topeka Democrat says: A more
cultured and refined body Of meu and
1omen never assembled before in the
capital OF Kansas chan at the Kansas
reachers' State Asso iations which is
with US 70 day.
The Fredonia Citizen sug gests that
the legislature should give the uame OF
be created ahis winter, in honor IF the
great poet who has been 90 true and
Aoving . friend to Kansas and human
itg.
IN speaking oe great Tailroad boom,
chat is noe Ion" in Kansas the Ness
County Ne,ce says; ''Hhe town in west
ern kasas that 10 noe reasonably GER
tain of having six or seven raiiroaas
within the next geas is NOT much Of q
village after al.
In their report, Che railroad com
missioners of Kansas say: "What
Kansas needs is O market for her -four
an cereals neeeer home than IL att I'd
ed by prices based On EoreigD demand.
We confidently especs that the hu;id-
ing of syatem Us railNEals between
Texas and Kansas WiH sAve the peob-
lem."
The case OF the @tots Of Kansas S.
Warner Littler, charged wish msn-
slaug ghter, was ta&eaa up Ivy the court
Tuesday moEning and continued till
Thursday evening. With same ditfi-
Guilty a jury was impaAesei, after winch
the examination Of 1itnesess was be-
gun. The evidence Uasasfin by Thurs.
day noon, and the atteynooaa gas spent
by the lawyers in sitting tAe testimony.
After being out hal& an 4ouR she ;urg
brought in verIict oa ''.su& guiity:."
-Larned Republicans
The thru annual meetiasoethe Ken-
sas equal srlifr@gists will te Aefa in To-
peka op the 11th, 18th enc 33sh Of
january. The conversion will
open in Music ball on Gue:doy, aith,
at 2 o'clock p. IN. All sessione Of the